The first of these efforts comes in the form of two policy changes, which mean Twitter can be more effective in battling trolls.

Twitter has updated its violent threats policy so that ‘the prohibition is not limited to direct, specific threats of violence against others’. Instead, it now extends to ‘threats of violence against others or promot[ing] violence against others’.

The second policy change focuses on enforcement, whereby the support team can now lock abusive accounts for specific periods of time. It’s a bit like a time-out for trolls.

Aside from policy changes, Twitter has also begun testing a tool that will help it identify ‘suspected abusive Tweets’, hopefully limiting their reach.

It uses clever algorithms that understand a ‘wide range of signals and context’ that correlates with abuse, to weed out any bad apples.